I’m just released a stop motion video about my hitchhiking travels and I think that I may have made the best stop motion video ever (…or am I just partial? 
With friends in Portland, Maine
After almost 2 years, I have finally finished my stop motion video,
I Love People: 5,000 miles, 3,000 photographs, 930 People, and 1 man.
This video shows a 3 month journey as I finished up a year long hitchhiking project to share stories of the goodness of people. I went to some iconic American landmarks, crammed almost 1,000 people into the photographs, and then made it move to the music.
I am very proud of it and am very grateful to everyone that supported me in my travels, as well as in the process of creating the video.
Well, give it a watch for yourself and let me know what you think (check out the Long version as well).
If you enjoy it, please comment, “like” it, and subscribe to my Youtube Channel.
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Is it the best stop motion video ever… Or have I been staring at a video editor too long?
Share your thoughts in the comments below (especially if you are in the video)!
Dude! This is so inspirational. I recently took a big trip to the east coast for the first time and befriended a girl named April Stolarz. She wrote a feature story on you in the ASU paper a while back. Roughly a week after meeting April, while I was at a music fest in NY, I met one of the girls you jumped into the Atlantic with! It’s a small world.
After returning home in July I stumbled upon your story in April’s on-line portfolio, and I immediately thought the whole idea was kind of crazy and completely incredible.
After watching the completed film this afternoon and then reading your tips and failures article on createourworld.net, I feel almost as though I was there. Thank you for sharing this experience with me and the rest of the world. I am 25 years old and filled with dreams, and I will find it difficult to forget this story. I love you too man.
-Brandon Griffin (Reno, NV)
Really happy to hear this story. I love April and I am pretty sure I know who was at that festival in NY.
Stay in touch and if you need anything, let me know.
Love it! This deserves a million views, Benjamin, and I’ll do my part to help that happen
Thanks Niall! (People can’t resist that great looking “mug” of yours. Can’t not get a million
Benjamin says…
From one travel blogger to another…I LOVE IT! I only wish I thought of it first, hehe
I actually just took the idea to another level (check Chris Rehage at the Longest Way and Noah 6 years on Youtube. I took what I liked and made it better.
Rock on Travel Blogger!
Thank you Ben. I’m so happy that I’ve been able to stay in touch with your adventure all the way to this point. I feel dedicated and helpful.
Rock, rock, rock! Plus, plus, plus! Keep on going.
Thanks Tim! I’m happy about it too and I appreciate the support!
What song is that? I love it.
Lehtmojoe, “Tom Petty” Yeah it fits perfectly
Ben! Started following you a couple of years ago, and it’s so awesome to see this new site! Shared it with a few friends already… keep up the good work! We are on the road around the world as well, hopefully our paths will cross at some point… who knows?
Dayna,
Great to hear from you and I hope we do to? Where are you at?
Belgium! Probably headed to Greece/Turkey for winter.. but that’s all up in the air, as always.
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Great stuff. There truly is no reason not to make your adventure / travel dreams come true. People, I’ve found, are truly so much nicer than we give them credit for. Any plans to backpack across Europe or do this in other countries?
Thanks and I agree. Yeah, I am excited for Europe and 80% of the other countries in the world. I’m motivated to really explore the USA first though. People recommended so many places in the year, I have a lot of places to visit still.
First off – just merely talking about what you did and what you believe in is enough to inspire me to taking some big actions. But this video is outstanding! I can only imagine the time and effort that went into, but as I’m sure you already know, it was well worth it. Awesome life project Benjamin.
So what were some of the things you did on this 3 month journey, besides of course shoot this awesome video?
Chris,
It was actually a year, but this video took up the last 3 months. I did a hike up Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park, worked on a WWOOF farm, went to a nude beach, and ate some great lamb chops.
could have sworn i saw you in Portsmouth, NH at the traffic circle. we were getting off route 95 heading into Portsmouth to buy a movie, and i said if you were still there I’d totally pick you up. alas, you were gone when we came back around. glad you didn’t get picked up by state troopers! great video! and if that wasn’t you…great video!
I did go through Portsmouth. That is strange!
Good article. Its realy good.
Thanks
what song is that? great vid
and seemed like a lot of fun 
Great video! Thanks for taking the time to create this.
Hey dude, just found your site via Think Traffic’s MDBP. A deffo standout from those I’ve checked out so far, love this video! Great stuff!
Thanks Ryan.
Are you working on a blog for MDBP too?
Best stop motion video ever. Hope we cross paths on our travels!
Cheers,
Courtney
Thanks, Courtney. Me too. Stay in touch.
Great video! I am from Singapore me and my friends are inspired by your vid and wants to do something like this, how long did you take and how much it cost?
Thanks, Arthur.
I saved for 6 years ahead of time for the year, bu I could have done it earlier. I estimate it was about 10,000$ for the year.
From Facebook to Youtube to here. Keep the dreams alive dude.
You too, Ian! Thanks
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I was very excited to see this site.I wanted to thanks for this great article! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it and I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post.
Sweet video! Inspiring! Mississippi native here…hope we showed you some southern hospitality
Lauren,
Thanks for your comment. Go Miss!
Hi there,
sorry but I actually wanted to leave a comment on the post you made about the burning man which I found nothing short of fascinating – a great and interesting post. But somehow I couldn’t put a comment on it!?! No idea why not & I wonder if you know why or others have the same problem.
I actually came across your site on MDBP and thought I’d drop by and say Hi and leave a comment. On that subject, in order to help out fellow MDBPers I invite you to leave a comment here and get a free backlink to your site and also to your latest article (you’ll probably be the first because I literally just wrote it).
Anyways, it’s a great site you have here, very best of luck with it!
take care,
Alan
Cool Alan!
Thanks for letting me know. Yeah, I’m constantly playing around with the layout of my site and it looks like this layout doesn’t allow for comments on the homepage (you would have to go into the blog section).
I’ll fix that up. Cool. I’ll check out your site as well.
(And go to Burning Man, my friend… go!)
Benjamin
I’ve been paging through your adventures and love it, natch. Did you ever find yourself in North Dakota — land where hay bales are used as roadblocks, meth as currency? Along with some nice things like the Badlands. I’m a native and we almost never see hitchers in that state. Best of luck in all your travels!
Good to hear from you, Nolan!
I will be there at some point. Gotta check it out for myself (I guess I should stock up on Meth before I go, so I can live like a king
Added you to my list of people to hang with.
Rock it!
This is indeed the best stop motion video ever. Truly inspiring and so artistic. Good work!
Thanks Danyel! Happy to hear it